Superoxide anion-generating activities of macrophages as studied by using cytochalasin E and lectins as synergistic stimulants for superoxide release.

abstract：:The heat-labile toxin (HLT) of Bordetella bronchiseptica was purified successively from sonic extracts of phase I organisms grown in Stainer-Scholte medium, by partition in hydrophobic interaction, sucrose density gradient centrifugation, gel filtration through Sepharose 4B and 6B, isoelectric precipitation and isoele...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Endoh M,Amitani M,Nakase Y

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A CpG-enriched recombinant plasmid (pUC18-CpG) as an adjuvant of FMD killed vaccine was tested for immunization and vaccination challenge in a porcine model. Our preliminary results had indicated that the recombinant plasmid could enhance the humoral immune response triggered by the traditional oil-adjuvant vaccine af...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Guo X,Jia H,Zhang Q,Yuan W,Zhu G,Xin T,Zhu H,Sánchez-Vizcaíno JM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnaporthe oryzae chrysovirus 1 strain A (MoCV1-A) is the causal agent of growth repression and attenuated virulence (hypovirulence) of the rice blast fungus, M. oryzae. We have previously reported that heterologous expression of MoCV1-A ORF4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae results in growth defects, a large central vacu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Urayama S,Fukuhara T,Moriyama H,Toh-E A,Kawamoto S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using anti-human B cell monoclonal antibodies prepared against B1 (CD20), B2 (CD21), B4 (CD19), and BB-1 (B lymphoblast antigen-1), we compared the expression of B cell differentiation antigens on a Jijoye-P3HR-1 cell line family of Burkitt's lymphomas. The expression of BB-1 and B2 antigens was faint on P3HR-1 K cell...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yokochi T,Inoue Y,Iwata H,Miyadai T,Kimura Y

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have determined the contribution of Th1 and Th2 responses to the protective immunity and pathology of Mycobacterium bovis infection. However, much of that information is derived from experimentally infecting cattle with M. bovis and few data from naturally infected animals are available. The aim of...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Blanco FC,Schierloh P,Bianco MV,Caimi K,Meikle V,Alito AE,Cataldi AA,Sasiain Mdel C,Bigi F

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porins were prepared from smooth strain of Salmonella typhi 0-901 and chemotype rough mutant of S. typhimurium Ra-30. Porins could significantly stimulate the immune systems of mice. Immunization of mice with the porins provoked synthesis of anti-porin antibodies. Macrophages from the immunized mice showed increased c...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tabaraie B,Sharma BK,Sharma PR,Sehgal R,Ganguly NK

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred and twenty-five breast milk samples were examined for the occurrence of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) by cell culture method. Virus was isolated from the milk in 1 of 177 samples collected within 6 days after delivery, 2 of 115 samples collected during the period of 7 days to 1 month after delivery, 10 of...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hotsubo T,Nagata N,Shimada M,Yoshida K,Fujinaga K,Chiba S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ompA gene, 981 bp in size and identified in the Mycobacterium bovis genome, was cloned and sequenced. Predicted amino acid sequences showed a protein of molecular weight 33.5 kDa with an isoelectric point of 7.28 and an OmpA conserved domain at the carboxy terminal with signal sequence at the N-terminal. Homology ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Singh JP,Verma R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year (1996-2000) survey of rotavirus infection involving 2,218 diarrheal fecal specimens of children collected from five regions of Japan was conducted. A total of 642 (28.9%) specimens were found to be rotavirus positive. A changed prevalence pattern of rotavirus G serotype was found with an increase of G9 and G2...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Zhou Y,Li L,Okitsu S,Maneekarn N,Ushijima H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses to Helicobacter pylori infection play important roles in gastroduodenal diseases. The contributions of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) to the induction of gastric inflammation and to the protection from H. pylori infection were investigated using TNF-alpha gene...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamamoto T,Kita M,Ohno T,Iwakura Y,Sekikawa K,Imanishi J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ISG20 is an ribonuclease specific for single-stranded RNA and considered to play a role in innate immunity against virus infections. We herein show that both poly IC, an authentic double-stranded RNA, and IFN-gamma induced ISG20 expression in cultured HUVEC. Poly IC-induced ISG20 expression was inhibited by LY294002, ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Imaizumi T,Mechti N,Matsumiya T,Sakaki H,Kubota K,Yoshida H,Kimura H,Satoh K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) is an efficacious chemoattractant for lymphocytes, monocytes and hematopoietic progenitor cells. In the present study, we examined whether SDF-1 has growth promoting activity on human peripheral T cells and analyzed the possible underlying signal transduction pathways. SDF-1 augme...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yonezawa A,Hori T,Sakaida H,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes, a group A Streptococcus (GAS), has been recognized as the causative pathogen in patients with severe invasive streptococcal infection with or without necrotizing fasciitis. In recent epidemiological studies, Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) has been isolated from severe inva...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe S,Takemoto N,Ogura K,Miyoshi-Akiyama T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with typhoid fever presenting to the Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital during the period 1975-1998 were retrospectively investigated. All cases were diagnosed by a positive culture for Salmonella typhi in either of their clinical specimens. Of the total number of 130 patients, 57% contracted the disease ab...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hoshino Y,Masuda G,Negishi M,Ajisawa A,Imamura A,Hachimori K,Takayama N,Yamaguchi T,Kimura M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial activity of cefpodoxime against Branhamella catarrhalis was studied. All of the 65 clinical isolates tested were inhibited at and below 1.56 micrograms/ml, both at 10(7) and at 10(5) CFUs. The following was further studied on B. catarrhalis N-5 which showed average susceptibility to each drug examine...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Takenouchi T,Nishino T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the epidemiology of viral acute respiratory infections (ARIs), 305 human parainfluenza virus types 1 (HPIV1), 154 HPIV2 and 574 HPIV3 strains were isolated from 16,962 nasopharyngeal swabs obtained between 2002 and 2011 at pediatric clinics in Yamagata, Japan. The total isolation frequency for HPIV1-3 was 6...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mizuta K,Abiko C,Aoki Y,Ikeda T,Itagaki T,Katsushima F,Katsushima Y,Matsuzaki Y,Noda M,Kimura H,Ahiko T

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of continuous free-flow electrophoresis for the purification of extracted lipopolysaccharides ( LPSs ) was investigated. Commercial (nucleic acid contaminated) LPS preparations, isolated by the hot phenol-water method of Westphal from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli 0111: B4, were analyzed. Continu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kuwae T,Kurata M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis is commonly associated with complicated UTI and expresses several virulence factors, including MR/P fimbriae. In the present study mice were immunised nasally with MrpA, the structural subunit of MR/P, with or without CT as a mucosal adjuvant. The animals were then challenged with P. mirabilis and in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Scavone P,Rial A,Umpierrez A,Chabalgoity A,Zunino P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adenoviruses (HAdVs) are an important cause of acute gastroenteritis in children. However, few studies on the epidemiology or types of HAdVs associated with acute gastroenteritis have been conducted in Korea. Therefore, in the present study, the incidence of HAdV in 2064 stool samples from Korean children hospit...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Lee JI,Lee GC,Chung JY,Han TH,Lee YK,Kim MS,Lee CH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen effect on migration of eosinophils and monocytes was studied in embryonic chickens. On the 13th embryonic day, chickens were injected with mitogens, such as concanavalin A (Con A), phytohemagglutinin-P (PHA-P), and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), into the allantoic cavity, and the mitogenic effect was estimated ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Moriya O,Ichikawa Y

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the various virulence mechanisms of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the type III secretion system (TTSS) has been characterized as a major factor associated with acute lung injury, bacteremia and mortality. In addition, PcrV, a component protein of the TTSS, has been characterized as a protective...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yasumoto H,Katoh H,Kinoshita M,Shimizu M,Hamaoka S,Akiyama K,Naito Y,Sawa T

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline (pp-tet), and kanamycin (pp-kan) resistance genes were cloned from a transferable R plasmid of fish pathogen Pasteurella piscicida, and complete nucleotide sequences were determined. The pp-tet was a class D Tet determinant constructed with the tetA resistance gene of 1,182 bp encoding a protein with a de...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kim EH,Aoki T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid requirements for the growth of Aedes albopictus, clone C6/36, cells and for the production of dengue (DEN) and Chikungunya (CHIK) viruses were examined by growing the cells or the viruses in media which were deprived of one of the 20 amino acids. Cell growth was markedly inhibited when cystine was omitted f...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sasao F,Igarashi A,Fukai K

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several liposomes containing ovalbumin (OVA), a model antigen, with different lipid compositions were prepared in order to evaluate their ability to induce oral tolerance. Oral administration of these liposomal OVAs induced suppression of the proliferative responses of popliteal lymph node cells from the treated mice ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Masuda K,Horie K,Suzuki R,Yoshikawa T,Hirano K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mass outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H45 was first reported in Japan in 1998. This pathogen was classified as an enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) O157 because it was characterized by the Shiga toxin gene (stx)-negative and bundle-forming pilus (bfp) gene-positive genotypes. In this study, we investigated the type I...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Abe A,Nagano H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella sonnei, which has generally been associated with dysentery in developed countries, has recently been emerging in developing countries. Specifically, in Brazil few published studies have that molecularly characterized this species. The aims of this study were to analyze the efficacy of typing using multiple-lo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Seribelli AA,Frazão MR,Medeiros MIC,Stehling EG,Falcão JP

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:JC polyomavirus (JCPyV) causes progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a fatal demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, in immunocompromised patients. Because no drugs have been approved for treating PML, many antiviral agents are currently being investigated for this purpose. The inhibitory effe...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nukuzuma S,Nakamichi K,Kameoka M,Sugiura S,Nukuzuma C,Tasaki T,Takegami T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological effect of purified beta toxin of Clostridium perfringens type C in vivo was investigated. After intravenous injection of the purified beta toxin into rats, a rise in blood pressure and a simultaneous fall in heart rate were observed. After the blood pressure reached a maximum, the heart rate recovered g...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakurai J,Fujii Y,Matsuura M,Endo K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Env and Gag proteins of HIV-1 are the two major structural proteins of this retrovirus. The interactions between Env and Gag proteins and their regulation in HIV-1 are required for several steps of the replication cycle, involving not only virus assembly, specifically Env incorporation, but also entry steps after ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murakami T

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to study the alterations of CD4(+) CD25(+) Foxp3(+) T(regs) in HIV-infected SPs and to examine the role of T(regs) in the disease progression of HIV. The proportion of CD4(+) CD25(+) Foxp3(+) T(regs) in peripheral blood of 24 SPs, 30 asymptomatic HIV-infected patients, 20 AIDS patients, and 16 non-in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Zhang Z,Jiang Y,Zhang M,Liu J,Sun G,Shi W,Wang Y,Shang H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00